Arvind Venkataramani

Arvind Venkataramani

UX / Design Research in San Francisco, he/him/they

About

Making you think

Side Projects

Ongoing

Democratizing people's ability to design rituals for individual and collective wellbeing

Work Experience

2023 — Now

Building and running the research function

2022 — 2023

Built a research engagement model & roadmap for the cloud platform org, uncovered major adoption barriers for product-led growth, identifying opportunities resulting in roadmap updates across multiple product orgs.

2016 — 2022

Led a team of senior and junior researchers doing strategic and tactical research worldwide, for Fortune 100 clients across a variety of verticals. Proactively improved the team’s process, practice, and culture.

2021 — 2021

Co-designed and taught a course on how to empirically frame innovation challenges using systems thinking

2008 — 2015
Senior Design Researcher at SonicRim

Carried out in strategic, exploratory, and evaluative research both domestically and internationally, using a mix of ethnographic, participatory design, RITE/usability, and survey methodologies.

2006 — 2008
Design Researcher at Steelcase Inc

Education

2004 — 2006
MS in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
1999 — 2003
BEngg. in Computer Science at Visvewsaraya Technologial University
Bangalore, India

Teams

Current
Tailscale